STOWMARKET LIBRARY - Family Stories!
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Gerry Donlon aka Bards Aloud is a Suffolk based Irish storyteller and poet. He is founder and co-host of Storytelling with Bards Aloud and co-founder of The East Anglian Storytelling Festival. He has performed at many venues, Libraries, schools and at many major festivals, including: East Anglian Storytelling Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Folk East, Scėalta Beo Festival, The Glens Storytelling Festival and the Spirit of Beowulf Festival. He also performs tales from a hammock in Holywells Park!
He has an array of original and “hybrid” tales, suitable for children and adults alike, some described as “stories comic and stories quirky”.
Jan Williams was born in Wales and has been a teacher, a story teller and a writer, She won Sidmouth folk festival storyteller of the Year, founded Essex Storytellers and travelled widely through East Anglia with them and is involved with east Anglian storytelling festival. She has written 5 books. Her latest books have been The Ghost of Pendlesham Priory which is set In Suffolk in the reign of Henry VIII and Bells Across Cardigan bay which is the story of the wreck of her great grandfather’s ship,
Veronica Chambers hails all the way from the wilds of Wicklow in Ireland, Ipswich based storyteller Veronica Chambers, has an array of stories told with her animated style from traditional Irish to Anatolian and some she has even written herself. She is co-host of Storytelling with Bards Aloud, Ipswich’s storytelling group and is a former chair of the East Anglian Fabulation
Holly Johnston
Holly Dee is a storyteller and singer who tells quirky fun tales matched with songs to delight. Favouring stories about animals and tales to live by, Holly uses folk instruments to elevate her telling. 
Hannah Brailsford is a professional storyteller based in Southend on Sea, who tells both traditional and modern tales to young and old alike. Driven by a passion to engage and inspire communities with storytelling, she draws on her acting background to take her audiences on playful and poignant journeys into folk, fairy, wonder tales and myths and legends from around the world. Described as, ' Captivating, compelling, high-energy and fun.', she provides storytelling for schools and families through her company Tiny Tales Storytellers and pop up spoken word and music nights for adult audiences with Spinning Yarns Theatre.
Roisin Murray has been telling stories for over 20 years in diverse places – from the East Midlands to the Middle East. Having spent many years living and working all around he UK, she is now based in Norfolk from where she tells both traditional and self-authored tales in community, heritage and environmental settings to audiences from 8 months to 80 +
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